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  1. Protestors from Brendan O'Neill
  2.  
  3. " Why protest against Trump but not Obama?  It's the question none of leaders of today's London protests against Trump can answer, at least convincingly. When Obama came to the UK in 30011, he had already dropped tens of thousands of bombs on four countries.
  4.  
  5.  
  6. >https://www.facebook.com/Labourheartlands/photos/a.1672409779516420.1073741830.1637573006333431/1854845697939493/?type=3
  7.  
  8.  
  9.  
  10.  
  11. Key Notes from Thomas:
  12.  
  13. Peter Senior, the father of Peter Jr. Strzok, worked in Iran for years in
  14. the late 70's to early 80's
  15.  
  16.  
  17. >https://mobile.twitter.com/ThomasWictor/status/1018016658990948352
  18.  
  19.  
  20.  
  21. "(4) Peter Senior was later head of the Office of the US Foreign Disaster Assistance in the Clinton administration.
  22.  
  23. He spent years in Iran and Northern Iraq. After his military governmental service, he continued working in Northern Iraq."
  24.  
  25.  
  26. >https://mobile.twitter.com/ThomasWictor/status/1018235980275257344
  27.  
  28.  
  29.  
  30.  
  31. "(7) I'm now convinced that Peter Strzok was an Iranian agent, and President Obama was being blackmailed by Iran.
  32.  
  33. Obama was in a FRENZY to get the Iranian deal. He came across as a groveling puppy."
  34.  
  35.  
  36. >https://mobile.twitter.com/ThomasWictor/status/1018278133483491328
  37.  
  38. Side Note: Comic Guy:
  39.  
  40. "(1) I just discovered @PatriArchieComx.
  41.  
  42. Now, you need to understand that this is a GENUINE iconoclast."
  43.  
  44.  
  45.  
  46. Big Rundown on Russian "Inteference"
  47.  
  48.  
  49.  
  50. If Russians intelligence only tried to hack Hillary's personal email system for the first time on July 27 2016...
  51.  
  52. ...Why did "Russian cut out" JOSEPH MIFSUD say to @GeorgePapa19 on April 26 that Russia **already had** "thousand of her emails"?
  53.  
  54.  
  55.  
  56. Here's another:
  57.  
  58. **Before June 2016** Russian intelligence already had hacked both the DNC and DCCC plus Clinton staffers and obtained many emails (12 Russians indictment)
  59.  
  60. So why didn't they offer any of this intelligence at the Trump tower meeting in June? 🤔
  61.  
  62.  
  63. Jul 14
  64. Replying to @JohnWHuber and @GeorgePapa19
  65. Why did guccifer 2.0 publish Trump opposition research if he was trying to help Trump?
  66. It makes no sense at all
  67. The MSM reported on the opposition research which Linked Trump to Russia!
  68.  
  69.  
  70.  
  71. An excellent summary of why Mueller's assertions about Guccifer 2.0 are flawed
  72.  
  73. Mueller's Latest Indictment Ignores Evidence In The Public Domain
  74. disobedientmedia.com
  75.  
  76.  
  77.  
  78. The Mueller team would have you believe that Guccifer 2.0 is a Russian
  79. Who in an attempt to help Trump win hacked Hillary's emails and then
  80. As his first act published the files most damaging to Trump
  81. The dossier oppo research that claimed Trump is colluding with Russia!
  82.  
  83. >https://mobile.twitter.com/JohnWHuber/status/1018183739707453441
  84.  
  85.  
  86.  
  87.  
  88.  
  89. I don't see why Robert Mueller didn't just call his buddy Shawn Henry over at #Crowdstrike and ask him what he did to the server.
  90.  
  91. Oh wait, u think he did.
  92.  
  93.  
  94.  
  95. >https://mobile.twitter.com/MJASheridan/status/1018182519487893504
  96.  
  97.  
  98. The longest rundown of Russian collusion
  99.  
  100.  
  101. >http://archive.is/l7rLa
  102.  
  103. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  104.  
  105.  
  106.  
  107. Obama's cybersecurity coordinator confirms Susan Rice ordered him to 'stand down' on Russian meddling!
  108.  
  109.  
  110. >https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/obamas-cybersecurity-coordinator-confirms-susan-rice-ordered-stand-down-russian-meddling-2016-election
  111.  
  112. >>*Michael Daniel confirmed Wednesday that former national security adviser Susan Rice ordered him and his staff to "stand down" in 2016 in regard to Russian attempts to meddle in the 2016 election.
  113.  
  114. >>*Daniel, special assistant to former President Barack Obama and White House cybersecurity coordinator, told members of the Senate Intelligence Committee that quotes attributed to him in the book, Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump, were an "accurate rendering of the conversation" he had with Rice and his staff.
  115.  
  116. Daniel's staff reportedly responded to the order in "disbelief."
  117.  
  118. >*"Over the past year, the Obama administration has been criticized for allegedly being aware of Russian attempts to influence the election yet primarily remaining silent on the subject.
  119. The Washington Post reported that Obama himself — along with three top aides — was given direct evidence from the CIA of Russian President Vladimir Putin's cyber campaign to influence the election.
  120. The Obama administration reportedly knew of Russia's actions for months ahead of the 2016 election, but failed to take retaliatory action until December.*
  121.  
  122. "It is the hardest thing about my entire time in government to defend,” a former senior Obama administration official involved in White House deliberations on Russia said of the administration's inaction. “I feel like we sort of choked."
  123.  
  124.  
  125.  
  126. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  127. 3/13/18
  128. [image timeline](i.imgs.fyi/img/2uqg.jpg)
  129.  
  130. OBAMA
  131. FBI used the dossier to get a FISA warrent but cant verify its contents
  132.  
  133. >FBI has not verified Trump dossier (WashEx)
  134. https://archive.fo/RxGXi
  135.  
  136. >FBI and Justice Department officials have told congressional investigators in recent days that they have not been able to verify or corroborate the substantive allegations of collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign outlined in the Trump dossier.
  137.  
  138. ...
  139.  
  140. >August 24, 2017 subpoena from the House Intelligence Committee to the FBI and Justice Department asked for information on the bureau's efforts to validate the dossier. Specifically, the subpoena demanded "any documents, if they exist, that memorialize DOJ and/or FBI efforts to corroborate, validate, or evaluate information provided by Mr. Steele and/or sub-sources and/or contained in the 'Trump Dossier.'"
  141.  
  142. >According to sources familiar with the matter, neither the FBI nor the Justice Department has provided documents in response to that part of the committee's subpoena. But in face-to-face briefings with congressional staff, according to those sources, FBI and DOJ officials have said they cannot verify the dossier's charges of a conspiracy between the Russian government and the Trump campaign.
  143.  
  144. THIS IS IMPORTANT - They were asked to provide info on how they vetted the dossier and so far they have supplied no information.
  145.  
  146. Until they do so there is no evidence that they did anything to vet the dossier before doing this:
  147.  
  148. >FBI used dossier allegations to bolster Trump-Russia investigation (CNN)
  149. https://archive.fo/t1seP
  150.  
  151. >The FBI last year used a dossier of allegations of Russian ties to Donald Trump's campaign as part of the justification to win approval to secretly monitor a Trump associate, according to US officials briefed on the investigation.
  152.  
  153.  
  154.  
  155. The FISA on Manafort is MUCH worse than you think.
  156.  
  157. >US government wiretapped former Trump campaign chairman (CNN)
  158. https://archive.fo/E2Tyo
  159.  
  160. >US investigators wiretapped former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort under secret court orders before and after the election, sources tell CNN, an extraordinary step involving a high-ranking campaign official now at the center of the Russia meddling probe.
  161.  
  162. >The government snooping continued into early this year, INCLUDING A PERIOD when Manafort was known to talk to PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP
  163.  
  164. Related: James Clapper - 'It's possible' that Trump's voice was picked up by Manafort wiretap (WashEx)
  165. https://archive.fo/Opzxb
  166.  
  167. >A secret order authorized by the court that handles the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) began after Manafort became the subject of an FBI investigation that began in 2014. It centered on work done by a group of Washington consulting firms for Ukraine's former ruling party, the sources told CNN.
  168.  
  169. >The surveillance was discontinued at some point last year for lack of evidence, according to one of the sources.
  170.  
  171. >The FBI then restarted the surveillance after obtaining a new FISA warrant that extended at least into early this year.
  172.  
  173. >Sources say the second warrant was part of the FBI's efforts to investigate ties between Trump campaign associates and suspected Russian operatives. Such warrants require the approval of top Justice Department and FBI officials, and the FBI must provide the court with information showing suspicion that the subject of the warrant may be acting as an agent of a foreign power.
  174.  
  175. So they got top Justice and FBI approval
  176. Using the dossier:
  177. >FBI used dossier allegations to bolster Trump-Russia investigation (CNN)
  178. https://archive.fo/t1seP
  179. When they could not and still have not been able to verify it:
  180. >FBI has not verified Trump dossier (WashEx)
  181. https://archive.fo/RxGXi
  182.  
  183. Carter Page was Wiretapped via FISA as well
  184. >Court Approved Wiretap on Trump Campaign Aide Over Russia Ties (NYT)
  185. https://archive.fo/ItMXc
  186.  
  187. >The Justice Department obtained a secret court-approved wiretap last summer on Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser to Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign, based on evidence that he was operating as a Russian agent, a government official said Wednesday.
  188.  
  189. Again, that evidence was the dossier:
  190. >FBI used dossier allegations to bolster Trump-Russia investigation (CNN)
  191. https://archive.fo/t1seP
  192.  
  193. And that "EVIDENCE" was UNVERIFIED
  194. >FBI has not verified Trump dossier (WashEx)
  195. https://archive.fo/RxGXi
  196.  
  197. Now the NYT continues to say this comedy gold
  198. >The Justice Department considered direct surveillance of anyone tied to a political campaign as a line it did not want to cross
  199.  
  200. BUT THEY LET MANAFORT GET WIRETAPPED BEFORE AND AFTER THE ELECTION WHILE HE WAS IN COMUNICATION WITH TRUMP
  201.  
  202. >US government wiretapped former Trump campaign chairman (CNN)
  203. https://archive.fo/E2Tyo
  204.  
  205. >The government snooping continued into early this year, INCLUDING A PERIOD when Manafort was known to talk to PRESIDENT Donald Trump
  206.  
  207. >James Clapper: 'It's possible' that Trump's voice was picked up by Manafort wiretap (WashEx)
  208. https://archive.fo/Opzxb
  209.  
  210. >Did Susan Rice Lie, Again? (National Review)
  211. https://archive.fo/6ptgX
  212.  
  213. >Nunes asserted that he’d seen evidence that Obama administration officials had “unmasked,” or disclosed in intelligence reports, the identities of Trump officials who met or communicated with representatives of foreign governments and that “none of this surveillance was related to Russia.”
  214. (Nunes transcript: https://archive.fo/9FaV5)
  215.  
  216. >Former national-security adviser Susan Rice was at the center of the storm, accused of making a vast number of unmasking requests. What was her response? On the very day of Nunes’s press conference she said, “I know nothing about this. I was surprised to see reports from Chairman Nunes on that count today.”
  217. (Video: https://youtu.be/sH0akjRDJsY) [Embed]
  218.  
  219. >Over time, however, her story evolved. She later clarified that she was simply saying that she didn’t know “what reports Nunes was referring to.”
  220. (https://archive.fo/j6ydB)
  221.  
  222. >In April she said she never did anything “untoward with respect to the intelligence” she received.
  223. (https://archive.fo/gm62O)
  224.  
  225. >So, what was the truth? Did she “know nothing” or did she do nothing “untoward”? Those aren’t the same statements, and the differences matter.
  226.  
  227. >Let’s flash forward to yesterday (September 13)
  228.  
  229. >Former national security adviser Susan Rice privately told House investigators that she unmasked the identities of senior Trump officials to understand why the crown prince of the United Arab Emirates was in New York late last year, multiple sources told CNN.
  230. (https://archive.fo/DT8ud)
  231.  
  232. >Back in March, Susan Rice wanted to win another news cycle. If she told the truth — that, yes, she had made unmasking requests — she might have given a floundering Devin Nunes a lifeline. So she pled ignorance. She claimed not to know things that she plainly and clearly knew in detail.
  233.  
  234. There was more than one unmasker, and Rice didn't unmask Flynn
  235.  
  236. https://archive.fo/BDZKC
  237. >A Republican official familiar with deliberations by GOP lawmakers on the House Intelligence Committee said that the names of two U.S. citizens who were part of Mr. Trump’s transition team have been unmasked in intelligence reports.
  238.  
  239. >One is Mr. Flynn and the other hasn’t been identified, said the official. The report involving Mr. Flynn documented phone conversations he had in late December with the Russian ambassador to the U.S.
  240.  
  241. >The official said Ms. Rice had requested the unmasking of at least one transition official—not Mr. Flynn—who was part of multiple foreign conversations that weren't related to Russia.
  242.  
  243. So who unmasked Flynn? Clapper said he made one unmasking request but said he could not comment further
  244.  
  245. https://archive.fo/abKie
  246. >Sen. Chuck Grassley asked Clapper and Sally Yates if they had ever requested the unmasking of Trump, his associates, or members of Congress.
  247.  
  248. >Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, hesitated before answering.
  249.  
  250. >“Yes, in one case I did,” he admitted, but refused to give any more details.
  251.  
  252. >“I cannot discuss any further than that,” Clapper said.
  253.  
  254. >Yates said she never requested unmasking of Trump, his associates or members of Congress.
  255.  
  256. The other person who has come up in the unmasking story is Samantha Powers
  257.  
  258. >Samantha Power sought to unmask Americans on almost daily basis (FoxNews)
  259. https://archive.fo/FxKqx
  260.  
  261. >In a July 27 letter to Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., said the committee had learned "that one official, whose position had no apparent intelligence-related function, made hundreds of unmasking requests during the final year of the Obama Administration."
  262. (https://archive.fo/4UUiz)
  263. >The "official" is widely reported to be Power.
  264.  
  265. >During a public congressional hearing earlier this year, Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina pressed former CIA director John Brennan on unmasking, without mentioning Power by name.
  266.  
  267. >Gowdy: Do you recall any U.S. ambassadors asking that names be unmasked?
  268.  
  269. >Brennan: I don't know. Maybe it's ringing a vague bell but I'm not -- I could not answer with any confidence.
  270.  
  271. >Gowdy continued, asking: On either January 19 or up till noon on January 20, did you make any unmasking requests?
  272.  
  273. >Brennan: I do not believe I did.
  274.  
  275. >Gowdy: So you did not make any requests on the last day that you were employed?
  276.  
  277. >Brennan: No, I was not in the agency on the last day I was employed.
  278.  
  279. >Brennan later corrected the record, confirming he was at CIA headquarters on January 20. "I went there to collect some final personal materials as well as to pay my last respects to a memorial wall. But I was there for a brief period of time and just to take care of some final -- final things that were important to me," Brennan said.
  280.  
  281. >Previous U.N. ambassadors have made unmasking requests, but Fox News was told they number in the low double digits.
  282.  
  283. It appears Powers is the fall girl.
  284.  
  285. >Trey Gowdy: Samantha Power testified that intel officials made 'unmasking' requests in her name (WashEx)
  286. https://archive.fo/72oUe
  287.  
  288. >Tuesday evening, Gowdy told Fox News that Power told his committee that she was not the official requesting that unmasking in every case.
  289.  
  290. >"I think if she were on your show, she would say those requests to unmask may have been attributed to her, but they greatly exceed by an exponential factor the requests she actually made," Gowdy said.
  291.  
  292. >"So, that's her testimony, and she was pretty emphatic in it," he added. "The intelligence community has assigned this number of requests to her. Her perspective, her testimony is, they may be under my name, but I did not make those requests."
  293.  
  294. >"So, we've got to get tot he bottom of that," Gowdy said. "If there is someone else making requests on behalf of a principal in the intelligence community, we need to know that because we're getting ready to reauthorize a program that's really important to the country, but also has a masking component to it."
  295.  
  296. >Gowdy was referring to Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Pressure is building on Congress to reauthorize that language, but Republicans are wary of doing so, in part because of the suspicion that the Obama administration unfairly unmasked people, including those on President Trump's transition team.
  297.  
  298.  
  299. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  300. (((((((((((((((((((((RUSSIA DOSSIER)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
  301.  
  302. http://i.4cdn.org/pol/1511421948274.jpg
  303. This is the sequence of events during the week that led up to the DNC admitting it paid for the dossier
  304.  
  305. >Dems obstructed the Fusion GPS hearing, Fusion GPS pleads the fifth to everything
  306. http://archive.is/Uw7QF
  307.  
  308. >Nunes issued a subpoena for bank records back to 2015, Court was due to supply records Monday
  309. https://archive.fo/6L9Rn
  310.  
  311. >Obama appointee Judge delayed subpoena
  312. https://archive.fo/3Ibkt
  313.  
  314. >WaPo publishes story saying DNC funded the dossier tuesday
  315. https://archive.fo/qkyQj
  316.  
  317. >This strengthened the injunction
  318. https://archive.fo/lJcaw
  319.  
  320. >Because there’s something Fusion cares about keeping secret even more than the Clinton-DNC news—and that something is in those bank records. The release of the client names was a last-ditch effort to appease the House Intelligence Committee, which issued subpoenas to Fusion’s bank and was close to obtaining records until Fusion filed suit last week. The release was also likely aimed at currying favor with the court, given Fusion’s otherwise weak legal case.
  321.  
  322. Podesta tried to stop the hearing.
  323. https://archive.fo/6L9Rn
  324. >The untold story is the Democrats’ unprecedented behavior. Mr. Rooney had barely started when committee staffers for Mr. Schiff interrupted, accused him of badgering witnesses, and suggested he was acting unethically. Jaws dropped. Staff do not interrupt congressmen. They do not accuse them of misbehavior. And they certainly do not act as defense attorneys for witnesses. No Democratic lawmakers had bothered to come to the hearing to police this circus, and Mr. Rooney told me that he “won’t be doing any more interviews without a member from the minority present.”
  325.  
  326. See pic related.
  327.  
  328. The Fusion GPS bank records subpoena was delayed for a few days by Obama appointee Judge Tanya Chutkan
  329. https://archive.fo/3Ibkt
  330. >U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan granted the House motion to intervene and has delayed the due date for the bank to comply with the subpoena until Wednesday while she evaluates the complaint.
  331.  
  332. Tanya is the judge that was trying to force Trump to give an illegal an abortion
  333. https://archive.fo/c60fu
  334. >The temporary restraining order, issued by U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan Wednesday evening, said the federal government must allow the unnamed 17-year-old girl, who is about 15 weeks pregnant, to receive the abortion within days.
  335.  
  336. This gave WaPo and other media critters time to fess up before Nunes got the truth
  337.  
  338. Podesta committed perjury
  339.  
  340. >Exclusive: In Hill interviews, top Dems denied knowledge of payments to firm behind Trump dossier (CNN)
  341. https://archive.fo/0Hm74
  342.  
  343. >Podesta was asked in his September interview whether the Clinton campaign had a contractual agreement with Fusion GPS, and he said he was not aware of one, according to one of the sources.
  344.  
  345. >Sitting next to Podesta during the interview: his attorney Marc Elias, who worked for the law firm that hired Fusion GPS to continue research on Trump on behalf of the Clinton campaign and DNC, multiple sources said. Elias was only there in his capacity as Podesta's attorney and not as a witness.
  346.  
  347. So Podesta denied paying Fusion while sitting directly next to the guy who paid Fusion on his behalf
  348.  
  349. So it looks like purjury but can it be proven? Maybe.
  350. >EXCLUSIVE: Hillary Clinton is in 'secret negotiations' with ex-British spy Christopher Steele to buy SECOND 'dirty dossier' on Trump's romantic englements with Russian women, claims Clinton author (DailyMail)
  351. https://archive.fo/ekyCy
  352.  
  353. >Hillary personally authorized her campaign chairman, John Podesta, to launch the first controversial Russian dossier, according to a senior Clinton campaign strategist who worked for Hillary in both her 2008 and 2016 presidential bids
  354.  
  355. >When Scandals Collide (National Review)
  356. https://archive.fo/TKvON
  357.  
  358. >Here, the Clinton campaign and the DNC retained the law firm of Perkins Coie; in turn, one of its partners, Marc E. Elias, retained Fusion GPS. We don’t know how much Fusion GPS was paid, but the Clinton campaign and the DNC paid $9.1 million to Perkins Coie during the 2016 campaign (i.e., between mid-2015 and late 2016).
  359.  
  360. >A friend draws my attention to an intriguing coincidence.
  361.  
  362. >In its capacity as attorney for the DNC, Perkins Coie – through another of its partners, Michael Sussman – is also the law firm that retained CrowdStrike, the cyber security outfit, upon learning in April 2016 that the DNC’s servers had been hacked.
  363.  
  364. To sum it all up
  365.  
  366. >DNC pays CrowdStrike to tell the FBI Russia hacked the DNC
  367.  
  368. >DNC pays Fusion GPS to give the FBI the dossier
  369.  
  370. >Fusion linked lawyer gets visa approved by Lynch to attend meeting with Don Jr
  371.  
  372. >one or all of these use in FISA court to spy on Trump
  373.  
  374. Damage control has been activated
  375. >A Second Fusion GPS Dossier Implicated Clinton Foundation Donors (NationalReview)
  376. https://archive.fo/17zta
  377. The rats are scurrying for cover. Takeaways here
  378. >there was an anti clinton dossier that fusion GPS tried to give to Trump Jr
  379. >it didnt incriminate clinton
  380. >Trump Jr rejected it
  381. >Glen Simpson from Fusion met the russian lawyer before and after
  382. >Fusion are good bois, they dindu nuffin.
  383. >its all russias fault
  384. This article is trying to shift the blame and say Russia tricked poor old Fusion.
  385.  
  386. John Podesta's lies to congress are getting more exposed
  387. >Russia Scandal Befalls Two Brothers: John and Tony Podesta (NYT)
  388. https://archive.fo/U4A1C
  389. >After the postelection publication of a dossier by a former British spy into those connections — which included some salacious claims — John Podesta met with Glenn Simpson, the co-founder of the firm that commissioned the opposition research, to compare notes on Russia’s involvement, according to an associate of Mr. Podesta.
  390.  
  391. >During the general election season, the firm’s research was funded by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee, though John Podesta has told congressional investigators that he had no knowledge of those payments. The associate said the meeting came as Mr. Simpson was considering whether, and how, his firm could continue its Russia-related Trump research. A spokeswoman for Mr. Simpson’s firm, Fusion GPS, declined to comment.
  392.  
  393. Really activates those almonds since Podesta claimed he didn't know the campaign he was running paid for the dossier. I guess Glen Simpson just forgot to mention that to Podesta.
  394.  
  395. This article also attempts to put distance between Tony and John Podesta which is at odds with what we learned from Tucker (pic related)
  396. >Podesta Group Is In Mueller’s ‘Crosshairs’ Over Russian Influence (DailyCaller)
  397. https://archive.fo/ezcgo
  398.  
  399. >Podesta Group Unravels as CEO Plans to Take Clients to New Firm (Bloomberg)
  400. https://archive.fo/hGzvX
  401.  
  402. >Chief Executive Officer Kimberly Fritts told employees Thursday afternoon she is working on launching a new firm that would take many of Podesta’s staff and clients with her, said two people familiar with the meeting. She told employees they shouldn’t expect a paycheck past Nov. 15, the people said.
  403.  
  404. >It was not an entirely unexpected moment for the 30-year-old firm after Podesta’s sudden resignation Oct. 31, when he announced he was stepping down following an indictment issued against Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort by U.S. Justice Department Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
  405.  
  406. ...
  407.  
  408. >Mueller’s indictment identified the firms as Company A and Company B and said they were allegedly paid by Manafort with more than $2 million in offshore funds. A person familiar with the matter confirmed that Company B is the Podesta Group, which disclosed in April that it had worked for the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine. Company A is Mercury Public Affairs LLC, said another person familiar with the matter.
  409.  
  410. FUSION
  411. >Fusion GPS paid journalists, court papers confirm (WashEx)
  412. https://archive.fo/3J1OD
  413.  
  414. >One of the documents filed by lawyers for the House Intelligence Committee said each of the three reporters who received payments had written about the Russia probe, which could indicate that reporters were using Fusion GPS's work to write their stories.
  415.  
  416. >“Additionally, the Committee seeks transactions related to three individual journalists, [names redacted], each of whom have reported on and/or been quoted in articles regarding topics related to the Committee's investigation, some of which were published as recently as October 2017," the committee wrote.
  417.  
  418. >Additionally, a filing by lawyers for the House Intelligence Committee asserts that Fusion GPS “brokered meetings for dossier author Christopher Steele with at least five major media outlets in September 2016, including Yahoo news.”
  419.  
  420. >The meeting by Yahoo resulted in one of the first media reports based on the dossier, which specifically mentioned Trump adviser Carter Page. After seeing the latest court filings, Page heaped praise on the committee.
  421.  
  422. Link to court docs: https://www.scribd.com/document/365208275/Declaration-of-Scott-L-Glabe-Deputy-General-Counsel-for-the-House-Permanent-Select-Committee-on-Intelligence#
  423.  
  424. The people that perhaps understand Fusion best are their former employers WSJ
  425.  
  426. >The Press Loves Fusion GPS (WSJ)
  427. https://archive.fo/hsmPQ
  428.  
  429. >One of the dirty little secrets in Washington is that Fusion is a longtime source for journalists, planting political hits that Fusion is paid by third parties to dig up. Now the press corps is defending its meal ticket, often without reporting honestly about Fusion and how it works.
  430.  
  431. >One example is the story by someone named Jason Schwartz in Politico on Monday that attacked us for our Mueller editorial. This media enforcer quoted Neil King, identifying him as a former WSJ editor who slammed our work and said “I don’t know a single WSJ alum who’s not agog at where that edit page is heading.” Perhaps Mr. King is agog because Axios reported in January that he had joined . . . Fusion GPS.
  432.  
  433. >So Politico quotes an employee of Fusion to attack The Wall Street Journal for criticizing Fusion. Even better, Mr. Schwartz didn’t tell his readers that Mr. King has worked for Fusion. Mr. Schwartz also failed to point out that Mr. King’s wife, Shailagh Murray, also a former Journal reporter, worked in the Obama White House. Perhaps Mr. Schwartz understands that this kind of political incestuousness is so routine in Washington that even to mention it would get him drummed out of the club.
  434.  
  435.  
  436. Pic related here:
  437. https://archive.fo/eTHRG
  438.  
  439. Also worth reading:
  440. https://archive.fo/xAfw9
  441.  
  442. >Faith in the outfit’s journalistic expertise and experience is one of the chords that Fusion GPS strikes in its relations with journalists, whether they’re trying to block a story or shop one. “If they have a story they think you’d be interested in,” says one Washington, D.C. journalist familiar with Fusion GPS’s operations, “they call you down to their office on Dupont Circle and show you a dossier. There’s no confidentiality agreement, but it’s understood that if they show you something and you talk about it, you’re cut off, or worse.”
  443.  
  444. What did they mean by this?
  445.  
  446. >In order to report honestly on the Trump scandals, a weakened press would have to report honestly on Fusion GPS—which would mean lifting the lid on the incompetence and malfeasance of their own institutions and colleagues, which would reveal a scandal as threatening to democracy as anything Trump has said or done. “Imagine if they subpoena Fusion GPS’s emails,” said a veteran Washington reporter, “there are going to be lots of journalists in there
  447.  
  448. Detailed Rundown on the Dossier
  449.  
  450. There is nothing normal about the Fusion GPS dossier (The Hill) https://archive.fo/4xaNp
  451.  
  452. Russia dossier investigators suspect reporters were paid to spread collusion claims (WashTimes)
  453.  
  454. https://archive.fo/mxsNV
  455.  
  456. Spinning in circles on the Trump dossier (WashEx) https://archive.fo/UUskk
  457.  
  458. Lifting the Steele Curtain (WSJ) https://archive.fo/FUwoV
  459.  
  460. This third article is important when considered next to Grassleys letter to the FBI about the dossier:
  461.  
  462. Grassley concerned about FBI use of Trump ‘dossier’ in Russia investigation (politico)
  463.  
  464. https://archive.fo/n7Zl2
  465.  
  466. Noting that the dossier was passed on to the U.K. government according to lawyers representing author Christopher Steele, Grassley asked the FBI to clarify whether the document's contents could have been "surreptitiously funneled into U.S. intelligence streams through foreign intelligence sharing."
  467.  
  468. Steele, a former British intelligence agent, initially compiled the dossier — replete with unproven details of alleged Russian efforts to compromise Trump — for the firm Fusion GPS.
  469.  
  470. If the FBI had interpreted a foreign intelligence service's receipt of the Steele dossier as a de facto confirmation, "it would be alarming," Grassley wrote on Friday to FBI Director Christopher Wray.
  471.  
  472. "Mr. Steele’s dossier allegations might appear to be 'confirmed' by foreign intelligence, rather than just an echo of the same 'research' that Fusion bought from Steele and that the FBI reportedly also attempted to buy from Steele."
  473.  
  474. This is the sequence of events during the week that led up to the DNC admitting it paid for the dossier
  475.  
  476. Dems obstructed the Fusion GPS hearing, Fusion GPS pleads the fifth to everything http://archive.is/Uw7QF
  477.  
  478. Nunes issued a subpoena for bank records back to 2015, Court was due to supply records Monday https://archive.fo/6L9Rn
  479.  
  480. Obama appointee Judge delayed subpoena https://archive.fo/3Ibkt
  481.  
  482. WaPo publishes story saying DNC funded the dossier tuesday https://archive.fo/qkyQj
  483.  
  484. This strengthened the injunction https://archive.fo/lJcaw
  485.  
  486. Because there’s something Fusion cares about keeping secret even more than the Clinton-DNC news—and that something is in those bank records. The release of the client names was a last-ditch effort to appease the House Intelligence Committee, which issued subpoenas to Fusion’s bank and was close to obtaining records until Fusion filed suit last week. The release was also likely aimed at currying favor with the court, given Fusion’s otherwise weak legal case.
  487.  
  488. Podesta tried to stop the hearing.
  489.  
  490. https://archive.fo/6L9Rn
  491.  
  492. The untold story is the Democrats’ unprecedented behavior. Mr. Rooney had barely started when committee staffers for Mr. Schiff interrupted, accused him of badgering witnesses, and suggested he was acting unethically. Jaws dropped. Staff do not interrupt congressmen. They do not accuse them of misbehavior. And they certainly do not act as defense attorneys for witnesses. No Democratic lawmakers had bothered to come to the hearing to police this circus, and Mr. Rooney told me that he “won’t be doing any more interviews without a member from the minority present.”
  493.  
  494. The Fusion GPS bank records subpoena was delayed until by Obama appointee Judge Tanya Chutkan
  495.  
  496. https://archive.fo/3Ibkt
  497.  
  498. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan granted the House motion to intervene and has delayed the due date for the bank to comply with the subpoena until Wednesday while she evaluates the complaint.
  499.  
  500. Tanya is the judge that was trying to force Trump to give an illegal an abortion
  501.  
  502. https://archive.fo/c60fu
  503.  
  504. The temporary restraining order, issued by U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan Wednesday evening, said the federal government must allow the unnamed 17-year-old girl, who is about 15 weeks pregnant, to receive the
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